The Fulbright Fellowship offers students an exciting post-baccalaureate year conducting research or teaching English in a host community in one of 155 countries. Participants represent the U.S. overseas while immersed in another culture (and often another language), and will gain valuable skills and experience applicable to future professional, academic and personal endeavors.

A new Fulbright application cycle is now open for juniors and sophomores.

Smith has a tradition of winning Fulbrights that help you while you help others through different fields for a year after graduating in 155 countries. Juniors and sophomores who are U.S. citizens with a 3.4+ GPA who are interested in applying to the [...]

Elliot Fratkin, professor of Anthropology, will be on sabbatical from Smith this year, as he teaches in Ethiopia on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Professor Elliot Fratkin was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year teaching at Hawassa University in Ethiopia. Fratkin, whose anthropology research focuses on “life and social change among nomadic pastoralists“, previously [...]